Steven Feifke Big Band at 92YTriBeCa

Originally from Lexington, Massachusetts, Steven Feifke is a 21-year-old senior at New York University, where he studies Jazz Performance and Economics. He is also an accomplished jazz composer, arranger and pianist. He was selected as one of 12 semi-finalists to the 2011 International Thelonious Monk Piano Competition held in Washington, DC. He has performed at Dizzy's Jazz Club, the Blue Note and Smalls in New York, and has toured in Europe.

Feifke (pictured standing) premiered his 17-piece Steven Feifke Big Band tonight at 92YTriBeCa on a bill that also featured the Adam Larson Quintet and the Armand Hirsch Trio. Writing and rehearsing with such a large and complex ensemble would be a challenge for a musician of any age, but this young musician proved he was more than capable. The band expertly performed his original compositions and executed imaginative arrangements of jazz standards.

Samples of Feifke’s music can be heard on his website, www.stevenfeifkemusic.com. He will perform with his quintet, which includes the aforementioned Larson on tenor saxophone, at Columbia University’s Dodge Hall on February 15^th.